Ancestry of
Israel Washburn

29th Governor of Maine

Joshua Fobes

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Israel Washburn — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Edward Fobes 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Howard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 May 1689 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Apr 1767 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Vernon Street Cemetery, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Dunbar
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Dec 1711 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Bethiah Fobes

  Hannah Fobes

  Joshua Fobes

  Mary Fobes

  Leah Fobes (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  Rachel Fobes

  Bettie Fobes

  Abigail Fobes

• Sources for Joshua Fobes

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/18/2019).
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/18/2019).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 470, Death record for Joshua Fobes.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 332.
  • ⁵ Nahum, Mitchell, Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Reprinted in facsimile., Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Reprinted by Henry T. Pratt (1897, originally 1840), 163.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 468.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 320-321.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 230.